Laurence Fishburne Evaluations ‘The Matrix Resurrections’

As its title instructed, The Matrix Resurrections introduced again a lot of the key creators and actors of the massively profitable sci-fi sequence. Stars Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss reprised their roles as Neo and Trinity and Lana Wachowski directed and co-wrote the movie.

One of many ironies of the movie was that Reeves and Moss’ characters each died within the earlier film, The Matrix Revolutions, whereas the solely key hero who survived, Laurence Fishburne’s Morpheus, did not return in Resurrections. No less than not as performed by Fishburne. As a substitute, Wachowski forged Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as a pc program model of Morpheus designed by Neo to assist awaken him from one more synthetic simulation of actuality. For no matter motive, Fishburne wound up the odd man out from the unique Matrix forged.

Whereas he didn’t seem within the movie, Fishburne did watch it. He informed Selection that he had seen The Matrix Resurrections, which was launched final December, and he thought “It wasn’t as dangerous as I assumed it might be … and it wasn’t nearly as good as I hoped it might be.”

He added “However I assumed Carrie-Anne and Keanu actually did their factor.”

Requested whether or not he missed being part of the movie, Fisburne replied, “No, probably not.”

I used to be a fan of The Matrix Resurrections, with some {qualifications}. (In my evaluate, I referred to as it a movie of “daring concepts, cool visuals, and a good quantity of inscrutable character motivations and technobabble dialogue.”) And one in every of my largest questions on it was its model of Morpheus. I by no means fairly wrapped my mind round why Neo created this different Morpheus — or why he didn’t simply make a program of him truly appeared just like the Morpheus he knew. (I imply, if you happen to’re making a program of a dude, why would you select to make it not appear like the person you keep in mind?) Generally, the film suffered for not having Fishburne’s steely, philosophical presence in it. Abdul-Mateen is an excellent actor, and he did his finest with the fabric he was given, however Resurrections wasn’t fairly the identical with out the unique Morpheus.

The Matrix Resurrections, together with the unique Matrix trilogy, is streaming on HBO Max. Fishburne’s new film, The Faculty For Good and Evil, is on Netflix.